Savings Quotes

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.

Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.

As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it - along the lines that President Bush proposed.

Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit

Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings

The French debt will remain massive. Savings should be made with cuts to the generous social system, which grants illegal immigrants the same protections as it does our citizens.

Most savings rates are based on underlying interest rates.

Savings is no longer about the markets, they're about playing the product game.

If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up.

The problem is indeed that one party's debt finds its counterpart in some other party's savings. Not paying debts therefore involves annulling some other party's financial claims on the debtor.

I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications.

I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely for those with annual income below $200,000.

Cars are necessary, but take a more humble one. Think of how many children die of hunger and dedicate the savings to them.

There's a second component of a good savings plan, which is something that a colleague of mine called Schlomo Benartzi and I developed many years ago, that we call "save more tomorrow."

Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows.

Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.

Find $50 a month for savings. No excuses!

I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.

Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.

The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.

Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.

Don't wait for better Investment options, Invest and then wait for better time.

A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes.

Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?

Wasting time on timing stuff is a good way to save time from being wasted on other pointless activities like writing, reading, and sleeping.

A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.

It's unfortunate how some people complain about being financially unstable, yet they use their last savings to acquire material things.

Savings, remember, is the prerequisite of investment.

One successful writer said he would never be a millionaire because he liked living like one too much.

If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.

A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.